Behavioral and Psychological Approaches to Breathing DisordersR. Ley, B.H. Timmons We start life with a breath, and the process continues automatically for the rest of our lives. Because breathing continues on its own, without our awareness, it does not necessarily mean that it is always functioning for optimum mental and physical health. The opposite is true often. The problem with breathing is that it seems so easy and natural that we rarely give it a second thought. We breathe: we inhale, we exhale. What could be simpler? But behind that simple act lies a process that affects us profoundly. It affects the way we think and feel, the quality of what we create, and how we function in our daily life. Breathing affects our psychological and physiological states, while our psychological states affect the pattern of our breathing. For example, when anxious, we tend to hold our breath and speak at the end of inspiration in a high-pitched voice. Depressed people tend to sigh and speak at the end of expiration in a low-toned voice. A child having a temper tantrum holds his or her breath until blue in the face. Hyperven tilation causes not only anxiety but also such a variety of symptoms that patients can go from one specialty department to another until a wise clinician spots the abnormal breathing pattern and the patient is successfully trained to shift from maladaptive to normal breathing behavior. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Nasopulmonary Physiology | 47 |
Behavioral Perspectives on Abnormalities of Breathing during Sleep | 59 |
Control of Breathing and Its Disorders | 67 |
Goals of Normal Automatic Regulation and Effects of Failure | 73 |
Breathing and the Psychology of Emotion Cognition and Behavior | 81 |
Hyperventilation Cognition and Conditioned Emotions | 89 |
Diagnosis and Organic Causes of Symptomatic Hyperventilation | 99 |
70 | 183 |
Respiratory System Involvement in Western Relaxation | 191 |
Abdominal Breathing | 197 |
Behavioral Management of Asthma | 205 |
Respiratory Practices in Yoga | 221 |
Comparison of Pranayama and Mechanically | 227 |
Styles of Breathing in Reichian Therapy | 233 |
Words of Caution for Therapists | 241 |
Physiological Considerations | 113 |
Psychiatric and Respiratory Aspects of Functional | 125 |
Assessment | 132 |
xxii | 139 |
Summary | 146 |
Concluding Remarks | 153 |
68 | 155 |
Breathing and Vocal Dysfunction | 179 |
Breathing Therapy | 253 |
BreathingRelated Issues in Therapy | 261 |
72 | 292 |
Publications of the Symposia on Respiratory | 293 |
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